so honestly, the stakes for tomorrow night's debate between vice president joe biden and paul ryan could not be higher. and no one on the obama side is trying to play down this debate as if it is not important. the romney/ryan side did make a kind of hilarious feint this week at trying to play down how well paul ryan is expected to do at this debate. this is mr. romney trying to do that on cnn yesterday. >> i don't know how paul will deal with this debate. obviously, the vice president has done, i don't know, 15 or 20%s during his lifetime. experienced debater. this is, i think, paul's first debate. i may be wrong. he may have done something in high school. i don't know. >> high school? really? paul ryan's first debate? as abc news noted today, "paul ryan has actually participated in at least eight debates during his 14 years in congress. that's according to available articles and information provided by the ryan campaign." first debate? ninth debate? what's the difference, really? we know what the truth is here, but we put our presidential candidate out to talk to the press on camera an